Dejan Vinković
Physics Department
University of Split
N. Tesle 12, 21000 Split
Croatia
 e-mail: vinkovic_at_pmfst.hr
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ALMERÍA, SPAIN, March 26, 2008: Press Release

Living upside-down shapes spiders for energy saving

An interdisciplinary team of researchers from Spain and Croatia led an investigation into the peculiar lifestyle of numerous spider species, which live, feed, breed and 'walk' in an upside-down hanging position. According to their results, such 'unconventional' enterprise drives a shape in spiders that confers high energy efficiency, as in oscillatory pendulums. These results will appear in this week's issue of PLoS One. (READ MORE)

RESEARCH PROJECTS
• A Physical Analogue of the Schelling Model
• Biomechanics of spiders
• Protoplanetary Disks
• Dusty Winds from Young Stars
• Pre-Protostellar Core IRc7
• Bipolar Outflow from AGB Stars
• High Altitude Meteors
• Electrophonic Sounds and ELF/VLF Radio Emission from Meteors
• Research Expedition to Mongolia
• Non-Radial Stellar Pulsations
• Solvent Accessible Molecular Surfaces
VARIOUS ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS
• LELUYA.org
• Global Electrophonic Fireball Survey
• "Human Presence in Space" Forum
• Dalmatian Space Summer '07
• Society znanost.org
• Astrophysics Initiative in Dalmatia
• Astrophysics Program in Split, Croatia
• Connect::Portal
• Connect::Science Initiatives
• My Cartoon Drawings and Sketches
• My Computer Graphics Sci-Art
• Popular Science Articles and Interviews
• Mind Exercises
February 17, 2008:
Political parties and socio-economic development of Croatia

June 11, 2008:
Science and higher education in Croatia